Remote Backend Engineer — Fintech, Scale & Innovation

First Circle; Singapore; Remote; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Macbooks

Private health insurance

Training budget

Travel opportunities

Job summary

First Circle is a fast-growing NeoBank in Southeast Asia, offering SME-focused financial products and expanding across markets. We build backend systems in Kotlin, Java, and Ruby to support payments, payroll, and banking features for businesses.

The role involves designing scalable APIs, maintaining robust services, and collaborating closely with product and design to deliver from idea to production. Remote work is available with occasional travel to SEA markets.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems in Kotlin, Java, or Ruby.
• Strong foundations in API design, relational databases, and data modeling.
• Experience in startup fintech, payroll, payments, or banking is a strong plus (especially in regulated environments).
• Hands-on experience running services in production: debugging, incident investigation, resilience improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve backend services and APIs that are fast, reliable, and easy to change.
• Take features from concept to production: collaborate with product and design, ship, measure, and iterate.
• Ensure services run smoothly with clear monitoring, quick response, and user support.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Ruby

API design

Relational databases

Data modeling

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

First Circle is a fast-growing NeoBank in Southeast Asia, offering SME-focused financial products and expanding across markets. We build backend systems in Kotlin, Java, and Ruby to support payments, payroll, and banking features for businesses.

The role involves designing scalable APIs, maintaining robust services, and collaborating closely with product and design to deliver from idea to production. Remote work is available with occasional travel to SEA markets.